• Keith did the Chicago marathon today, I'm feeling inordinately emotional about this fact for no real reason. Maybe because I remember him running three miles a lot during the summer before our senior year, to try out for the soccer team in the fall. He didn't make it, and I felt for him at that point, and I was really impressed with the running ( Read more... )

Okay, just kidding, I think it does smell like fall. Until it hits 90. Again ( Read more... )

In lieu of any of the vaguely serious and/or poignant bullet points I've been saving up for a post, let me just say that Lindsay and I got started listening to Julie-Andrews-musical clips on Youtube, and yeah, productivity, it's all over.

Just bought a Centurion Caveletto (a mid-80s steel road bike, standard quality) from a kid on Craigslist. The frame is too tall, but I don't care, I'll learn to jump on and off it. It's dark grey and I want to put new pedals and hood covers on it, and tape the handlebars. It's heavier than my Dawes, which I miss terribly, but there's nothing to ( Read more... )

I officially found my home coffeeshop, as it were. 24 hours, no florescent lighting, retractable plugs hanging from the ceiling, porch full of smoking punks and philosophers ( Read more... )

As tends to happen once or twice a week, we went to drink after class, as half of us are in the middle of long, involved breakups. At one point someone said to me, "You talk about having dated men but i totally can't see it", and everyone else agreed. "You're vegan! And in grad school!" That was the criteria, apparently ( Read more... )

I would just like to point out that I had the best swim of my life today, and that the degree to which I have machine-like qualities is very high ( Read more... )

KATHY and EXTRAS sit outside the library SRC, wearing neutral colors. DRUNKEN BROS UR, wearing burnt orange, X DL, staggering and lunging.
DRUNKEN BRO 1: [loudly] Dude, you know they're canceling Reading Rainbow?!
BROS interject filler indignation-- No way! Oh man! What! Aww! I know!, 3-4 seconds, overlapping next line.
DB 2: [singing] Reading ( Read more... )

I should probably situate my queerness somewhere ( Read more... )

The amount of reading is very, very large. Though I do have appreciation for the fact that my professors are trying to be light and kind with the reading load. And the writing load this semester will be practically nonexistent. But hundreds of pages a week. The 2nd years say not to do all of it because you can't anyway. But I haaave tooooo. ( Read more... )